Vision-Language-Action papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Vision-Language-Action went from 257 papers in 2023 to 708 in 2026, roughly 2.8x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Vision-Language-Action work: 640 papers from 2023 to 2026, 39% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · computer vision: papers tagged with both rose from 21 in 2023 to 135 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Robotics and Embodied AI, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Humanoid Control, is up 3.8x versus 2.8x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Dual-Domain Vision Transformer with Spectral Positional Bias
• ICML 2026FOCA: Future-Oriented Conditioning for Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Adaptation
• ICLR 2026Curvature-Guided Task Synergy for Skeleton based Temporal Action Segmentation
• CVPR 2026ActAvatar Temporally-Aware Precise Action Control for Talking Avatars
• NeurIPS 2025Doodle to Detect: A Goofy but Powerful Approach to Skeleton-based Hand Gesture Recognition
• ICML 2025Feasible Action Search for Bandit Linear Programs via Thompson Sampling
• ICLR 2025Action Sequence Augmentation for Action Anticipation
• CVPR 2025Active Event-based Stereo Vision
• NeurIPS 2024GAIA: Rethinking Action Quality Assessment for AI-Generated Videos
• ICML 2024Causal Action Influence Aware Counterfactual Data Augmentation
• ICLR 2024Matrix Manifold Neural Networks++
• CVPR 2024End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Action Localisation with Video Transformers
• NeurIPS 2023Activity Grammars for Temporal Action Segmentation
• ICML 2023Algorithmic Collective Action in Machine Learning
• ICLR 2023A Theoretical Understanding of Shallow Vision Transformers: Learning, Generalization, and Sample Complexity
• CVPR 20233Mformer: Multi-Order Multi-Mode Transformer for Skeletal Action Recognition
• NeurIPS 2026A Statistical Framework for Algorithmic Collective Action with Multiple Collectives
• ICML 2026From Abstraction to Instantiation: Learning Behavioral Representation for Vision-Language-Action Model
• ICLR 2026EAST: Early Action Prediction Sampling Strategy with Token Masking
• CVPR 2026DarkShake-DVS Event-based Human Action Recognition under Low-light and Shaking Camera

All Vision-Language-Action papers

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351. CVPR 2025Post-pre-training for Modality Alignment in Vision-Language Foundation Models
352. CVPR 2025Prompt-CAM: Making Vision Transformers Interpretable for Fine-Grained Analysis
353. CVPR 2025PVC: Progressive Visual Token Compression for Unified Image and Video Processing in Large Vision-Language Models
354. CVPR 2025R2C: Mapping Room to Chessboard to Unlock LLM As Low-Level Action Planner
355. CVPR 2025RADIOv2.5: Improved Baselines for Agglomerative Vision Foundation Models
356. CVPR 2025RC-AutoCalib: An End-to-End Radar-Camera Automatic Calibration Network
357. CVPR 2025Realistic Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
358. CVPR 2025Reproducible Vision-Language Models Meet Concepts Out of Pre-Training
359. CVPR 2025ResCLIP: Residual Attention for Training-free Dense Vision-language Inference
360. CVPR 2025Rethinking Vision-Language Model in Face Forensics: Multi-Modal Interpretable Forged Face Detector
361. CVPR 2025Revealing Key Details to See Differences: A Novel Prototypical Perspective for Skeleton-based Action Recognition
362. CVPR 2025ReVisionLLM: Recursive Vision-Language Model for Temporal Grounding in Hour-Long Videos
363. CVPR 2025RoboGround: Robotic Manipulation with Grounded Vision-Language Priors
364. CVPR 2025RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics
365. CVPR 2025Scaling Vision Pre-Training to 4K Resolution
366. CVPR 2025SceneTAP: Scene-Coherent Typographic Adversarial Planner against Vision-Language Models in Real-World Environments
367. CVPR 2025Seeing the Abstract: Translating the Abstract Language for Vision Language Models
368. CVPR 2025Semantic-guided Cross-Modal Prompt Learning for Skeleton-based Zero-shot Action Recognition
369. CVPR 2025ShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agent
370. CVPR 2025Similarity-Guided Layer-Adaptive Vision Transformer for UAV Tracking
371. CVPR 2025SimLingo: Vision-Only Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving with Language-Action Alignment
372. CVPR 2025Skip Tuning: Pre-trained Vision-Language Models are Effective and Efficient Adapters Themselves
373. CVPR 2025SkySense-O: Towards Open-World Remote Sensing Interpretation with Vision-Centric Visual-Language Modeling
374. CVPR 2025SLADE: Shielding against Dual Exploits in Large Vision-Language Models
375. CVPR 2025SmartCLIP: Modular Vision-language Alignment with Identification Guarantees
376. CVPR 2025SOAP: Vision-Centric 3D Semantic Scene Completion with Scene-Adaptive Decoder and Occluded Region-Aware View Projection
377. CVPR 2025SOLAMI: Social Vision-Language-Action Modeling for Immersive Interaction with 3D Autonomous Characters
378. CVPR 2025SOLVE: Synergy of Language-Vision and End-to-End Networks for Autonomous Driving
379. CVPR 2025SPARC: Score Prompting and Adaptive Fusion for Zero-Shot Multi-Label Recognition in Vision-Language Models
380. CVPR 2025Spatiotemporal Decoupling for Efficient Vision-Based Occupancy Forecasting
381. CVPR 2025Steering Away from Harm: An Adaptive Approach to Defending Vision Language Model Against Jailbreaks
382. CVPR 2025Stochastic Human Motion Prediction with Memory of Action Transition and Action Characteristic
383. CVPR 2025SVLTA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Temporal Alignment via Synthetic Video Situation
384. CVPR 2025TAPT: Test-Time Adversarial Prompt Tuning for Robust Inference in Vision-Language Models
385. CVPR 2025Task-Aware Clustering for Prompting Vision-Language Models
386. CVPR 2025Taxonomy-Aware Evaluation of Vision-Language Models
387. CVPR 2025Temporal Action Detection Model Compression by Progressive Block Drop
388. CVPR 2025TopV: Compatible Token Pruning with Inference Time Optimization for Fast and Low-Memory Multimodal Vision Language Model
389. CVPR 2025VideoGEM: Training-free Action Grounding in Videos
390. CVPR 2025VILA-M3: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Medical Expert Knowledge
391. CVPR 2025Vision-Guided Action: Enhancing 3D Human Motion Prediction with Gaze-informed Affordance in 3D Scenes
392. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Embodiment for Monocular Depth Estimation
393. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Gradient Descent-driven All-in-One Deep Unfolding Networks
394. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Model IP Protection via Prompt-based Learning
395. CVPR 2025Vision-Language Models Do Not Understand Negation
396. CVPR 2025VisionPAD: A Vision-Centric Pre-training Paradigm for Autonomous Driving
397. CVPR 2025VisionZip: Longer is Better but Not Necessary in Vision Language Models
398. CVPR 2025VL-RewardBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Vision-Language Generative Reward Models
399. CVPR 2025VLMs-Guided Representation Distillation for Efficient Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning
400. CVPR 2025VLsI: Verbalized Layers-to-Interactions from Large to Small Vision Language Models

FAQ

How many Vision-Language-Action papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

1,639 in total: 257 in 2023, 329 in 2024, 345 in 2025, 708 in 2026.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 204 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 108 the year before.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 113 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 64 the year before.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 126 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 33 the year before.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 265 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 140 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Vision-Language-Action papers?

CVPR, with 640 papers from 2023 to 2026.